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Hey guys,

I can't think of a title for this one. In fact, I'm not sure what I'm even going to write about because honestly I have very little to say, I just felt bad for you leaving you all alone for so long.

I've just been doing school as usual and I've been dealing with my lack of computer since mine broke- which we're still trying to get fixed- and it's been pretty monotonous. That being said, I'm having a lot of fun this term because I'm actually taking classes that pertain to my major: English.

I'm taking a Shakespeare course which is being killed for me because the teacher is a horrible person.

I'm also taking a very interesting non-fiction course in which we focus on an anthology of essays which are actually proving to be more interesting than they sound on the surface. The first one that we read was "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift written in the 1700s in which he describes the number of homeless and begging women with their broods of children in Ireland. He suggests that the optimal solution is to nurture the children to 1 year of age- because they are costlessly breast-fed until this age- and then to sell them on the market as what is essentially livestock. Clearly this essay is satirical, but it was actually very insightful into many of the problems in Ireland at the time. I'm really enjoying this class so far. The prof is pretty awesome, to boot.

I'm actually doing a creative writing class! I'm rather proud of myself for finally taking initiative in my chosen area. We're only doing poetry right now, which isn't exactly showing me to the best of my ability. Let's face it, I can't do poetry to save my life. Soon we'll be doing prose and then I can really flaunt it! I'm looking forward to grueling feedback.

Other than that I'm doing Greek Mythology- yes that's a course- and German II. I'm having a lot of fun and I'm actually doing well so far.

I hope you are all well!
~Alexandra

So Sherlock Yesterday...

Hey guys,

So, Sherlock yesterday. ALL OF THE EMOTIONS. I don't think I have ever been that moved by a TV show ever. The acting was phenomenal, the writing was excellent, and frankly the sentiment was beautiful. Some one wisely said on tumblr yesterday "They didn't need to say 'I love you.' They really didn't." I agree wholeheartedly. (In case no one knew, I'm an avid Sherlock/John shipper.) I wait with baited breath for series 3. Bastards are probably going to make us wait the full three years.

Anyway, I know need to try and conduct my life normally today after my extreme emotional bruising from yesterday. Thanks so much Gatiss and Moffat, I love you guys too.

~Alexandra

The Wonders of Snow

Hey guys,

Calgary finally got some snow this week, back on Tuesday. As per usual I fell and popped my knee out (again), sprained my elbow and, as I discovered yesterday, my computer screen! I seem to have busted the LCD panel, but everything else is in full working order. My dad's helping me get this sorted out to see if we can fix it, and if not then it looks like I'm getting a new computer in April. For the time being I'm using my brother's old gaming laptop (17.8 inches...).

I'm not hauling this thing to school and back for obvious reasons (in fact, I'm never hauling a computer to school again unless it's absolutely necessary) so I'll be using my iPod Touch for most of my computer needs for the next little while since most of my time is spent on campus. I just wanted to let you guys know that because of this my posts will likely be few and far between and also very short until I can get all this nonsense sorted out.

I get to work tonight! Woo. I really don't want to work on my leg, but I really don't think I have a choice. It's only a three hour shift, but I think I'm closing on my own, which means I'll have an hour by myself so I can't sit.

This weekend is going to be paved by reading. I have to read Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Swift's "A Modest Proposal", one of Freud's essays for my creative writing class, and Hesiod's "Theogony". It's going to be an interesting weekend.

Since I hurt my elbow I can't do archery on Sunday, so I'm taking the opportunity to go to church for once. I heard through the grapevine that all of the churches in our diocese have converted their masses from this modern garbage they've been doing for longer than I've been alive (which were the reason I hated the church) to a classic- albeit English- High Mass. I'm going to go this Sunday and see how they do, maybe I'll be more motivated to attend more often if I like what they've done with it. I suppose now would be the time to admit that I'm Catholic. I'm not going to push any beliefs here, that's not my style. I'm just here to carry on being awesome!

That's about all that I can wring out of this post, so I'm going to leave you all alone now. I hope you are all doing well!
~Alexandra

In which I Actually Finish a Book

Hey guys!

So you know how I keep buying all these books? Yeah, so I finally finished one yesterday! It was the Supernatural book I bought back in December. Nevermore was the title of this one, and it's by Keith R. A. DeCandido. It was actually really good. It was set in the middle of season between "Crossroad Blues" and "Croatoan", Mr. DeCandido was kind enough to point this out at the beginning of the book. I highly recommend watching the preceding episodes because he references A LOT of events from the previous season and from the early season 2 stuff. It read like an episode of the show, I couldn't put it down! It had two parallel plots so there was always something happening. And conveniently at the end of the book Mr. DeCandido wrote down his Supernatural iTunes playlist which includes songs such as "Rock On", "Paranoid", "Enter Sandman" and "Smoke on the Water". There are 62 songs in total. Yes, I did go and create a playlist on YouTube which I am now downloading to my iPod... SHUT UP!!

Anyway, I'm now working my way through another Murdoch Mysteries installment Let Loose The Dogs which is the 4th book in the series and also one of my favourite episodes. So, I definitely already know who did it, but I'm okay with that because it's such a touching story.

I also went and picked up a few new things from Chapters... again. I grabbed some pretty cool looking speakers for my iPod; they look like old school microphones! I also found a book about Witchcraft and Demonology, and another novel called Inquisition which is set in Italy during the Spanish Inquisition. It should be pretty cool.

I ran up to the University today to grab my textbooks, this is going to be a VERY heavy semester. Oh well, c'est la vie.

That's all I got for you kids tonight, I'll talk to you again later!
~Alexandra

Happy New Year!

Hey guys!

Happy New Year!! I know I'm a little late on the uptake but I was at my friend's house and his wifi didn't work, so I couldn't get on the internet.

Anyway, this is going to be a very short post, I just wanted to say happy new year before I go off to find a working link to the new Sherlock episode: A Scandal in Belgravia. I can't find a working one to save my life!

Wish me luck!
~Alexandra